Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
troubled emotionally and usually deeply;
- Example: "agitated parents"2.
physically disturbed or set in motion;
- Example: "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
agitated \agitated\ adj.
1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
unagitated. agitated parents
Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught,
overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish,
hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied;
psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ;
{wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient,
tense, unquiet, unsteady.
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2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn: tossing
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3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated
mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated and
left alone, allowed to stand.
Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling,
roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred.]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Agitating.] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in
motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act,
Agent.]
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind
agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . .
. agitate the air." --Cowper.
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2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson.
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3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was
greatly agitated.
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The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
--Johnson.
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4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a
controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
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5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to
contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians
agitate desperate designs.
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Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract;
revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
agitated
adj 1: troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated
parents" [ant: unagitated]
2: physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture
foamed and bubbled" [ant: unagitated]